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CA ETRC P997-007-03-003 · File · 1916-1998
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

The file primarily consists of 36 programmes for awards nights and graduations at Alexander Galt Regional High School, Lennoxville. The file provides information about the school's cultural events, performances, and student activities, such as plays, awards nights, graduation ceremonies, and reunions from 1973 to 1998. It is also a source of information on the Waterville School and includes a reunion souvenir booklet, newspaper clipping and program from 1989; a photograph of the Waterville classes of Grades 4, 5 and 6 from around 1940; a proficiency certificate awarded Evelyn Smith in 1916; two concert prorgrammes from the Mitchell school from 1948 and 1965; and a programme from a performance of "Our Hearts were Young and Gay" by the Lennoxville High School Dramatic Society in 1947.

CA ETRC P997-003-06-001 · Item · 1967
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Textual Records collection

Item consists of digital reproduction of a poster advertising the Sherbrooke Hussars' Centennial Guard activities in Sherbrooke in 1967. The poster features an illustration of a soldier in a 19th-century uniform, holding a musket. The activities included a program of drill and 1867 battle tactics and a concert by the Sherbrooke Hussars Band to commemorate Canada's Centennial and the 100th Anniversary of the Regiment. Activities were to take place at the Parade Grounds (Champ-de-Mars) off of Queen Street (now Boulevard Queen-Victoria) in Sherbrooke on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons.

John Bird's house
CA ETRC P196-017-015 · Item · [190-?]
Part of Speid-Motyer family fonds

This item is a photograph of John Bird's house at the top of Church street. There is the spire of the old Catholic church and the spire of United Church located at the foot of Church street. Bishop's University is in the background.

Ned Henry and Arthur Speid
CA ETRC P196-017-001 · Item · 1902
Part of Speid-Motyer family fonds

This item is a photograph of Ned Henry and Arthur Speid in Crestmobile in front of George Henry's Shop in the Square in Lennoxville during the summer of 1902.

Toboggan club
CA ETRC P196-017-032 · Item · 1885
Part of Speid-Motyer family fonds

This item is a photograph of the Toboggan Club in 1885. Back row: Charles White; Caroline Abbott White; missing; Margaret Abbott. Centre: Mary Abbott McKindsey (in fur neckpiece); Arthur Abbott. To left of her, Mabel Wilder Puffer (hat with tassel)/ Mr. Puffer, 3nd from left, front.

CA ETRC P196-006-001a · Part · 1966
Part of Speid-Motyer family fonds

Item is the first part of a recorded conversation with Arthur T. Speid with Dr. J.D. Jefferis, Arnold Banfill, and Arthur Motyer, recorded 19 February 1966 in Lennoxville. The interview focuses on Arthur Speid's experiences as a student at Bishop's College School and Bishop's University in the 1890s. Among the subjects covered are the campus buildings, food strikes, the golf course (links), athletics, drama, school subjects, women at Bishop's, and various professors, principals, and headmasters including Henry de Beltgens Gibbins, Thomas B. Waitt, James P. Whitney, Francis J.B. Allnatt, Richard A. Parrock, Gilbert B. Jones, Arthur H. McGreer, and Robert N. Hudspeth. It also includes more general discussion of Lennoxville.

CA ETRC P237-004-004 · Part · [ca. 1977]
Part of Barbara Verity fonds

Item is a documentary project researched and produced by Barbara Verity and narrated by Joyce Cochrane on covered bridges in the Eastern Townships, produced around 1977. Included in the documentary are images of the covered bridges at Fitch Bay (Narrows), Milby, Capelton, Coaticook (Drouin), Stanbridge East (Monaghan), Melbourne (Creek/Gibson), Highwater (Province Hill/de la Frontière), Gould (Fisher Hill/McVetty-McKenzie), Ste-Catherine-de-Hatley (Rexford), Cowansville (Freeport), Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge (Pike River/des Rivières), and Island Brook (McDermott).

CA ETRC P998-2022-039-001 · Item · [190-?]
Part of Eastern Townships Resource Centre Graphic Material collection

Item is a photograph, taken from the McGreer Building on Bishop's University campus, of Lennoxville from about 1900. Visible is the covered bridge over the Massawippi River on College Street, part of the front lawn and driveway for the University and includes a view of the first Saint-Antoine Catholic Church and the steeples of the Lennoxville Methodist Church and St. George's Anglican Church.